Abstract
Impulsiveness in adolescents and young adults is an important aspect of psychological research. However, there still is lack of research that relates impulsiveness and motor performance in those. Thus, we aim to detect the levels of impulsiveness related to motor skills, motor laterality, spatial orientation, and individual interaction on the decision-making of adolescents and young adults across three staggered workouts. The study had 71 participants (53 males and 18 females), ranging in age from 17 to 24 years old (Mage = 18.5 years; SD = 1.72) and classified as non-impulsiveness (n = 47), impulsiveness (n = 17), and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (n = 7). A Mixed Methods research was conducted throughout four research tools (a) The Observational System of Motor Skills (OSMOS) was used to observe and detect the movement sequences patterns; (b) The Spanish version of Impulsive Behavior Scale (UPPS-P) was administered to obtain the impulsiveness profiles; (c) The Precision and Agility Tapping over Hoops (PATHoops) was carried out to observe the decision-making and temporal-spatial over movement effectiveness; (d) Motor Laterality Inventory (MOTORLAT) was applied to obtain the laterality profiles related to motor skills performance. This Mixed Methods approach has obtained useful results for impulsiveness in motor situations as the results from the different tools converge to established three clear profiles of impulsiveness. Participants with ADHD showed lack of interpersonal interaction, non-resolute decision-making, and lesser richness of motor skills patterns than non-impulsiveness and impulsiveness subjects. Additionally, impulsiveness participants also showed rich motor patterns, dyadic interactions, good decision making in spatial orientation tasks, and more versatile laterality in the lower limbs.
Highlights
Impulsiveness is widely investigated in adolescents and young adults mostly related to different addictions such as gambling, tobacco, drugs, and alcohol consumption (e.g., Wiers et al, 2010; Franco et al, 2016; Secades-Villa et al, 2016)
Considering the interest in the patterns’ detection of impulsiveness on adolescents and young adults’ motor responses, we aim to study the relationship of impulsiveness, motor skills, motor laterality (Bishop et al, 2013; Castañer et al, 2018) and decision-making (Burnett et al, 2012) in staggered situations, through a design Mixed Methods (Castañer et al, 2013)
The data obtained from item 9 of the UPPS-P, which refers to the joy of taking risks, and which belongs to the facet of sensation seeking, have shown that the majority of participants agreed with the enjoyment of taking risks
Summary
Impulsiveness is widely investigated in adolescents and young adults mostly related to different addictions such as gambling, tobacco, drugs, and alcohol consumption (e.g., Wiers et al, 2010; Franco et al, 2016; Secades-Villa et al, 2016). Young adults in their twenties are nowadays considered to be in late adolescence. The control of the impulses is still regarded as immature (Casey and Jones, 2010), meaning that teenagers but young adults look for new, risky, and impulsive sensations (Cyders and Smith, 2008). These are critical periods in ontogenesis, which the setting of habits unbalances the personal and social dimensions (Cerkez et al, 2015)
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